Kate’s 2¢: “Dark Roads” by Chevy Stevens
“Dark Roads” by Chevy Stevens
Isabella Star LaBlanc did a good job of reading this story for the NLS. I think Hailey’s teenage crush on Amber will, in time, fade and she’ll realize the precious gift Johnny is as a life-time partner.
The prologue is confusing and mis-leading, until the end of the story makes it clear which character is talking.
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Chevy Stevens (born 1973 [1] as Rene Unischewski[2][3]) is a Canadian author of thriller novels. She lives on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
Stevens was working as a realtor when she got the idea for her novel Still Missing, in which a real estate agent is abducted while holding an open house. Her book Still Missing was a New York Times bestseller, [4] and the winner of the 2011 International Thriller Writers Award for Best First Novel.
From NlS/BARD/LOC:
Dark roads DB104568
Stevens, Chevy. Reading time: 11 hours, 9 minutes.
Read by Isabella Star LaBlanc.
Suspense Fiction
Psychological Fiction
After the death of her father, teenager Hailey McBride is sent to live with her aunt and uncle. To escape her bully of an uncle, she disappears into the wilderness as her father taught her. But a killer haunts the Cold Creek Highway that Hailey calls home. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2021.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Broken River” by J. Robert Lennon
“Broken River” by J. Robert Lennon
It was interesting how the omniscient observer was omnipresent to explain what the humans were doing and add philosophical comments about existence and purpose.
Hillary Huber did a good job of narrating this story for us.
A few take-outs:
–The layers of regrets are piling up.
- — The observer’s identity is connected to the self-awareness of the humans and to their awareness of the world around them.
–The observer is struck by how liberating it is for the humans to accept blame for their own misfortunes; to forgive those who have hurt them.
- I like the phrase “…now that the vectors of these lives have converged”. It could also be said that the threads of all the various characters have finally woven together and we know why the were introduced in the first place.
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John Robert Lennon (born 1970[1]) is an American novelist, short story writer, musician and composer.
Early life[edit]
Lennon was raised in Phillipsburg, New Jersey.[2] He earned a B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania (1992) and an M.F.A. (1995) from the University of Montana.[3] He is, as of 2011, an associate professor, and director of the Creative Writing Program, at Cornell University[3][4][5] and resides in upstate New York.[6]
Fiction[edit]
Lennon’s first novel, The Light of Falling Stars (1997), about the aftermath of a plane crash, was the winner of Barnes & Noble’s 1997 Discover Great New Writers Award. His fourth novel, Mailman, was released to critical success in 2003[7] and concerns a mail-carrying protagonist named Albert Lippincott who is clearly losing his mind. The book won praise for its humorous portrayal of the sadness of everyday life.[8]
His other books include The Funnies (1999), a comedy about a would-be cartoonist; On the Night Plain (2001), a noir western set in the 1940s; and Pieces for the Left Hand: 100 Anecdotes (2005), a collection of 100 very short stories. His novel Happyland is roughly based around the American Girl doll company creator Pleasant Rowland. It was dropped by publisher W. W. Norton and subsequently published in serial by Harper’s Magazine.[7] In 2009, Graywolf Press published a new novel, Castle, and reissued Pieces For The Left Hand, which was appearing for the first time in the U.S. His 2008 short story “The Rememberer” is the basis of the CBS television drama Unforgettable.[9] His work has also appeared in The New Yorker. In April 2021, he published both a novel Subdivision and a new collection of short stories, Let Me Think,[10] which was a finalist for The Story Prize.
Music[edit]
Lennon is also a musician and composer. As a solo artist, recording as Inverse Room, he has released three full-length CDs, Simulacrum (2002), Pieces for the Left Hand (2005) (a companion to the book of the same title), and American Recluse (2007). He is also one half, along with musician Jim Spitznagel, of The Bemus Point, which has released one CD, Infra Dig (2005). In the early 1990s he fronted the band Wicked Bison, playing the Philadelphia bar and fraternity scene.[3]
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Broken river DB89808
Lennon, J. Robert. Reading time: 11 hours, 31 minutes.
Read by Hillary Huber.
Suspense Fiction
Mystery and Detective Stories
Psychological Fiction
Upstate New York. Karl, Eleanor, and their daughter, Irina, arrive from New York City in the wake of Karl’s infidelity to start anew. While Karl tries to stabilize his flailing art career, twelve-year-old Irina becomes obsessed with the brutal murders that occurred in the house years earlier. And, secretly, so does her novelist mother. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2017
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